Enduring Principles

Our Enduring Principles define the heart and soul of our faith community at our best.
Defining who we strive to be in terms of principles (rather than long lists of rules),
allows each expression of the church throughout the world to adapt these truths to its cultural context.
Learn more about our Enduring Principles.

Enduring Principle: Sacredness of CreationCalled to be in the forefront of healing our creation

Enduring Principle: All Are CalledAll are called according to their gifts

Enduring Principle: Unity in DiversityTogether we can be and do more

Enduring Principle: Continuing RevelationWe are always learning more

Enduring Principle: Worth of All PersonsA place at God's table for everyone

CHRIST'S MISSION, OUR MISSION

All ministries, personnel, and resources of Community of Christ focus on the whole mission of Jesus Christ
through five, life-changing church-changing, and world-changing Mission Initiatives.
Click any logo below for more information.

Community of Christ in Canada

The church in Canada is organized into two Mission Centres – Canada West Mission (CWM) and Canada East Mission (CEM).

Canada West Mission

The Canada West Information page provides information about
CWM congregations, camping programs and other resources.

The Canada West Facebook page provides
up-to-the-minute news and information about what's happening in the mission centre.

Canada East Mission

The Canada East Information page provides information about
CEM congregations, camping programs and other resources.

The Canada East Facebook page provides
up-to-the-minute news and information about what's happening in the mission centre.

Find a Community of Christ congregation near you

We invite you to find a spiritual home with our community, where there is a place for everyone at God's table.

OUR COMMUNITY

The "community" part of Community of Christ is more than just what happens inside
our church buildings on Sundays.
Our community expands to include our neighbours of different faiths,
our neighbours in different places,
and our neighbours in the developing world.

Encounter World Religions

In our increasingly diverse world, understanding our neighbours is essential.
Encounter World Religions is a unique educational organization whose mission is to provide educational,
cultural and spiritual encounters with the world's religions.

Community Place+

Community Place+ pioneers innovative programs that
promote building authentic relationships
and cultivate deeper meaning in peoples' lives.
Each of our programs + initiatives are centred on
creating meaningful encounters in one's faith journey.

World Accord

World Accord brings people together.
It tells the stories of hard-working poor people in different places around the world,
and provides a way for Canadians to engage with them by supporting grassroots,
community-based projects to improve their (and our) well-being.

Do not be fearful of one another. Respect each life journey, even in its brokenness and uncertainty, for each person has walked alone at times.

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It is not the form of the sacrament that dispenses grace but it is the divine presence that gives life.

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The spirit of the Restoration is not locked in one moment of time, but is instead the call to every generation to witness to essential truths in its own language and form. Let the Spirit breathe.

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Do not be defined by the things that separate you but by the things that unite you in Jesus Christ.

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Every disciple needs a spiritual home.

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Open your ears to hear the pleading of mothers and fathers in all nations who desperately seek a future of hope for their children. Do not turn away from them. For in their welfare resides your welfare.

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Be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Ghandi

Jesus Christ, the embodiment of God’s shalom, invites all people to come and receive divine peace in the midst of the difficult questions and struggles of life.

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Scripture is not to be worshiped or idolized. Only God, the Eternal One of whom scripture testifies, is worthy of worship. God’s nature, as revealed in Jesus Christ and affirmed by the Holy Spirit, provides the ultimate standard by which any portion of scripture should be interpreted and applied.

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Tithing is a spiritual practice that demonstrates willingness to offer every dimension of one’s life to God.

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Courageously challenge cultural, political, and religious trends that are contrary to the reconciling and restoring purposes of God. Pursue peace.

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Stewardship as response to the ministry of Christ ... includes the generosity of congregations and jurisdictions that give to worldwide ministries of the church...

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When your willingness to live in sacred community as Christ's new creation exceeds your natural fear of spiritual and relational transformation, you will become who you are called to be.

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Lift up your eyes and fix them on the place beyond the horizon to which you are sent.

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Faithful disciples respond to an increasing awareness of the abundant generosity of God by sharing according to the desires of their hearts; not by commandment or constraint. Break free of the shackles of conventional culture that mainly promote self-serving interests. Give generously according to your true capacity.

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It is not pleasing to God when any passage of scripture is used to diminish or oppress races, genders, or classes of human beings. Much physical and emotional violence has been done to some of God’s beloved children through the misuse of scripture. The church is called to confess and repent of such attitudes and practices.

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That which seeks to harden one human heart against another by constructing walls of fear and prejudice is not of God.

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Collectively and individually, you are loved with an everlasting love that delights in each faithful step taken.

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Come before your Eternal Creator with open minds and hearts and discover the blessings of the gospel anew. Be vulnerable to divine grace.

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Undertake compassionate and just actions to abolish poverty and end needless suffering. Pursue peace on and for the Earth.

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You hold precious lives in your hands. Be gentle and gracious with one another. A community is no stronger than the weakest within it. Even as the One you follow reached out to those who were rejected and marginalized, so must the community that bears his name.

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Be not consumed with concern about variety in human types and characteristics as you see them. Be passionately concerned about forming inclusive communities of love, oneness, and equality that reveal divine nature.